Molecular Phytopathology: Current Approaches and Main Directions in Diagnostics of Woody Plant Diseases

Abstract

In the article the authors describe the prospects for diagnosis of woody plants diseases based on the use of modern methods of molecular plant pathology. The metagenomic approach based on the analysis of complex pathogens, including non-pathogenic microflora is described. The use the multicopy universal loci characterized by a number of advantages in determining taxonomic affiliation of infectious agents during phytopathological molecular analysis is proposed.

Keywords

• molecular phytopathology
• рhytopathogen
• DNA markers
• epiphytotics
• woody plants